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Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America by David A Taylor 9781684425204
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684425204Author David A TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Turner Publishing... -
Russian Writers and Soviet Society 1917-1978 by Ronald Hingley
Booksplease Price: $45.43This book, first published in 1979, provides a systematic anatomy of Russia's modern authors in the context of their society at the time. Post-revolutionary Russian literature has made a profound... -
Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-Based Practices by Gary A. Troia 9781606239070
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $50.10This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language... -
A Year with Gilbert White: The Story of a Nature Writer Jenny Uglow 9780571354184
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.75'Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.' GUARDIAN'Few can match Uglow's skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character.' SUNDAY TIMES'Charming . . . Like Radio 4's shipping... -
Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-century England by James Fitzmaurice 9780472066094
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $37.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472066094Author James FitzmauriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint The University of Michigan... -
Contemporary American Women Writers: Gender, Class, Ethnicity Lois Parkinson Zamora 9780582226203
Booksplease Price: $48.08This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and... -
Reading Medieval European Women Writers: Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past by Albrecht Classen 9783631674079
RRP: $89.98Booksplease Price: $80.46Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the... -
The Blurred Cross: A Writer's Difficult Journey with God Richard Bauckham 9781540967435
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $15.67In early 2022, esteemed New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham nearly lost his ability to read--an alarming prospect for a man who considers reading, writing, and scholarly work to be his vocation... -
Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 by Nina Baym 9780252078842
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them... -
Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit by Carmen Maria Machado 9781800814523
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.58'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you... -
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next? by Yomi Adegoke
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.02An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents:... -
Writers in Politics - A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9780852555415
Booksplease Price: $33.42This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre. Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared... -
Thoughtlines: Walking in Writer's Suffolk Jacky Colliss Harvey 9781914982187
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98This is a book is about walking and writing; about walkers who wrote, and writers who walk. And because it is a book about walking and writing it is also a book about thinking, the circuit that... -
Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness by Anjanette Delgado
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.37Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of the best literature of displacement... -
Silhouettes of Russian Writers: Selected Essays by Yuli Aikhenvald by Yuli Aikhenvald 9798887197203
RRP: $109.64Booksplease Price: $85.49Yuli Aikhenvald was one of the most popular and influential Russian literary critics of the early 1900s. His major book, Silhouettes of Russian Writers, went through six ever-expanding editions. A... -
The Productive Graduate Student Writer: A Guide to Managing Your Process, Time, and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation, and Get Published by Jan E. Allen 9781620368916
Booksplease Price: $33.66This book is for graduate students, and others, who want to become more productive writers. It's especially written for those who want to:increase their motivation, focus, and persistence to move a... -
Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah by Roger Bennett 9780761169192
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects, actors, musicians, and graphic artists... -
A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers by C. Robinson Solveig 9781551113500
RRP: $55.41Booksplease Price: $43.40This anthology of literary criticism by Victorian women of letters brings together a wealth of difficult-to-find writings. Originally published from the 1830s through the 1890s, the essays concern a... -
The Duel and Other Stories (riverrun editions): an exquisite collection from one of Russia's greateat writers Anton Chekhov 9781787475960
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.49A married woman restlessly seeks a deeper love.An insomniac ponders the meagreness of his life.A man loses the respect of his family because of a counterfeit coin.A duel of wits escalates into a... -
Joseph Opatoshu: A Yiddish Writer Between Europe and America by Sabine Koller
Booksplease Price: $117.36This book is an outcome of the international academic conference on Joseph Opatoshu held in Regensburg on 22-24 April 2012. It brings together literary specialists and historians working in Jewish... -
Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination by Shanyn Fiske 9780821418178
Booksplease Price: $50.98The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians' relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women... -
The Writer's Garden: How gardens inspired the world's great authors by Jackie Bennett 9780711277168
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.15See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book. Discover the flower gardens, vegetable... -
A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Mary Beth Harris 9781644533291
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $124.03A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman... -
Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History by Lynne Marie Getz 9780700624904
Booksplease Price: $53.95Nearly 250 years after ninety-five-year-old Elder Thomas Faunce got caught up in the mythmaking around Plymouth Rock, his great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter Hilda Faunce Wetherill died in... -
Health Writer's Handbook Barbara Gastel (Coordinates the graduate progam in science journalism at Texas A&M University, USA) 9780813812533
RRP: $74.76Booksplease Price: $67.61Barbara Gastel, physician and acclaimed medical journalist, has prepared an expanded, enhanced second edition of Health Writer's Handbook. Fully updated, the latest edition of this trusted handbook... -
Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s David DiMeo 9789774167614
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.69Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the... -
Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-Based Practices Gary A. Troia 9781593859923
Booksplease Price: $94.49This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language... -
Women Writers of the New African Diaspora: Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency by Pauline Ada Uwakweh 9781032420011
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women... -
The Writer's Guide to Good Style: A 21st Century guide to improving your punctuation, pace, grammar and style Katherine Lapworth 9781473688490
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55LEARN HOW TO LIFT YOUR CREATIVE WRITING BY EMPLOYING A GOOD WRITING STYLE.Do you want to write more effectively, correctly and in a manner which is appropriate for this brave new world of text speak... -
Word Processing for Technical Writers by Robert Krull
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $142.40Supports the idea of matching the "system" to the technical writer's needs. This book contains numerous questions and answers.About the AuthorROBERT KRULL is an Associate Professor of Communication... -
The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers by Ammar Abduh Aqeeli 9781433165306
RRP: $93.65Booksplease Price: $83.23The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers engages in the scholarly discussions about the origins and formation of the Black Arts... -
Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century Maura Ives 9781138254220
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.26In 1788, the Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary... -
Write This Way: Structured lessons and activities for reluctant young writers by Dr. Gavin Reid 9781801993333
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.69Many children avoid writing for a number of reasons - perhaps they find it tedious or frustrating, or perhaps they have dyslexia or dysgraphia. This structured programme of writing activities and... -
Otto Abetz and His Paris Acolytes: French Writers Who Flirted with Fascism, 1930-1945 by Martin Mauthner 9781845197995
Booksplease Price: $49.07Before Hitler comes to power, Otto Abetz is a left-wing Francophile teacher in provincial Germany, mobilising young French and German idealists to work together for peace through Franco-German... -
American Guides: The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture by Wendy Griswold
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $124.29In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate-and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and... -
A Touch of the Dutch: Plays by Dutch Women Writers by Judith Herzberg 9780951587775
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.63Featuring five plays by Dutch women writers (Hella Haasse, Matin Van Veldhuizenm, Suzanne Van Lohuizen, Inez Van Dullemen and Judith Herzberg) this play collection showcases the best plays by women... -
Three Radical Women Writers: Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst by Nora Ruth Roberts 9781138868939
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were... -
Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema by Jason Borge 9780415883962
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $65.02This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century. The film metropolis presented an ambiguous,... -
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
Booksplease Price: $15.20In "Lincoln", acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America's 16th president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings and as an instrument... -
Anglophone Indian Women Writers, 1870-1920 by Ellen Brinks
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55The result of extensive archival recovery work, Ellen Brinks's study fills a significant gap in our understanding of women's literary history of the South Asian subcontinent under colonialism and of...